John MC Smith

John MC Smith

John MC Smith (born February 6, 1853 in Belfast , Northern Ireland , †  March 30, 1923 in Charlotte , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1923 he twice represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Smith came to the United States with his parents in 1855, where the family settled near Plymouth , Ohio . There he attended public schools. In 1867 he moved to Charlotte, Michigan, where he worked in agriculture. He also studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor until 1879 . After a subsequent law degree at the same university and his admission as a lawyer in 1882, he began to practice in Detroit in his new profession. From 1885 to 1888, Smith served as a district attorney in Eaton County . He also continued to work in agriculture. In 1898 he became President of the First National Bank of Charlotte . Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . In 1903 he was elected to the Charlotte City Council; In 1908 he was a member of a convention to revise the Michigan constitution.

In the 1910 congressional election , Smith was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Washington Gardner on March 4, 1911 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1921 . During this time the First World War fell . At that time, the 16th , 17th , 18th and 19th amendments to the constitution were discussed and passed in Congress. From 1919 to 1921 Smith was chairman of the Committee on Labor .

In 1920 Smith decided not to run again. In that year his party colleague William H. Frankhauser was elected as his successor. However, this died on May 9, 1921. In the by-elections that were due, Smith was then re-elected to Congress, where he was able to resume his previous seat on June 28, 1921. He was confirmed in the regular elections of 1922 . He could have stayed in the House of Representatives until March 3, 1925. Smith died only four weeks after the beginning of the new legislature on March 30, 1923 in his hometown of Charlotte. After another by-election, his mandate fell to Arthur B. Williams .

Web links

• John MC Smith in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John MC Smith in the database of Find a Grave (English)